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Title: The Temptation to Be Happy
Author: Lorenzo Marone, Shaun Whiteside - translator
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-16-17
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
Cesare is 77 years old, a widower and cynical troublemaker, a man who has always had trouble caring for others and has given up trying. Aside from an intermittent fling with a mature nurse called Rossana, who moonlights as a sex worker, he prefers to live his own life, avoiding contact with his neighbors and even his own children wherever possible. Until one day, the enigmatic Emma moves into the neighboring flat.
Emma is married to a strange and sinister man. A man that seems so different from Emma. As Cesare investigates, and starts to uncover the truth of their relationship, he begins to rediscover an appetite for life, and soon he finds himself risking everything for a future he had never thought possible.

Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Uplifting. Excellently written.

A Story That Will Make its Way into Your Heart - Touching, Heartbreaking With Memorable Characters
Cesare is a 77 year-old widower with a son and a daughter whom he has little contact with and little outward affection is shown between him and either his son or daughter. Those who are his neighbors and friends would likely have good things to say about him or nothing at all. He keeps pretty much to himself, and he has grown to appreciate the silence that surrounds him most of the time. He does have a female companion of sorts, Rossana, she was his nurse many years ago, now she tends to more than just his health issues these days. Still, he hates to classify his relationship with her in any way. He doesnât want to hear the judgment in his childrenâs voices. He has a male friend, Marino, who lives in the same building, which he never leaves. And then there is the cat lady, and her cats, whose aroma arrives before her physical presence.
And then Emma moves in next door to Cesare. Sheâs young, sweet and married to a man who seems a bit of a bully. Sheâs a bit reticent to make acquaintances with her new neighbors, but at the same time, she knows she needs to find a way out of her darkness, and maybe then she can truly begin to live again.
âI would like to come to your aid, to help you to save yourself, Emma. Really I would. But I fear Iâm not up to it. One life wasnât enough for me to learn how to hold out a hand without trembling.â
And so Cesare becomes her sounding board, her confidant, and eventually this begins to fill a void in him he didnât really know was missing. Of course, all the neighbors weigh in on what they think is going on behind closed doors. He now feels that he once again has a purpose.
This will draw the inevitable comparisons to âA Man Called Oveâ, or âThe Story of Arthur Truloveâ, Cesare and friends are best described as a combination of the two and perhaps with a healthy dash of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryâ. All grumpy old men are not created equally, but there is a certain unique charm about Ove, Arthur and Harold Fry, and there is a certain unique charm about Cesare.